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1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice
Oxford University Press
March 2011
On Sale: March 11, 2011
320 pages
ISBN: 0199754314
EAN: 9780199754311
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Non-Fiction
The saga of the Freedom Rides is an improbable, almost
unbelievable story. In the course of six months in 1961,
four hundred and fifty Freedom Riders expanded the realm of
the possible in American politics, redefining the limits of
dissent and setting the stage for the civil rights movement.
In this new version of his encyclopedic Freedom Riders,
Raymond Arsenault offers a significantly condensed and
tautly written account. With characters and plot lines
rivaling those of the most imaginative fiction, this is a
tale of heroic sacrifice and unexpected triumph. Arsenault
recounts how a group of volunteers--blacks and whites--came
together to travel from Washington DC through the Deep
South, defying Jim Crow laws in buses and terminals and
putting their lives on the line for racial justice. News
photographers captured the violence in Montgomery, shocking
the nation and sparking a crisis in the Kennedy
administration. Here are the key players--their fears and
courage, their determination and second thoughts, and the
agonizing choices they faced as they took on Jim Crow--and
triumphed.
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